Well, we were planning on heading to the pokemon center after our fateful gym battle, but we end up waylaid by Juniper’s girlfriend instead. Intrigued where this could be going, we follow Fennel into one of the apartment buildings that we were snooping around in yesterday when we were looking for the gym leader. Without…

When Sin-kun wakes up, he expects it to be in the pokemon center. Or worse, at home, in his bed, in the real world, his isekai adventure having been just another dream, and just another failure. He is ready to accept the stomach churning grief of the idea. The frustration. After all, it’s his fault…

With very little hope of finding our actual goal, we venture into what appears to be a public park dotted with chicken topiary. Yes, next question. The gym leader was not in the great ball. The old man won’t let us go any further. Sin-kun attempts to physically push him out of the way, but…

Alright, what’s all this, then. We are immediately beset on by a random stranger. We are? After declaring that we’re training, she attacks, sending out… a purrloin. Sin-kun is kind of getting sick of purrloin already which is a bad sign. Our purrloin is faster than theirs, but they are doing like no damage to…

We walk into the grass and we immediately run into a level 7 patrat, reminding us that we uh, we need to level our team some more. Chloe gained a level just from being in the battle with that one patrat and getting immediately switched out. She learns “Odor Sleuth” which at this point we…